I could have spent a little time figuring out just why that was, but since it worked, that was enough information for me. After a little more testing, I happily concluded that everything appeared to be working as it should.

And so it ends
Given the ease with which I fell into the solution of that last problem, the end of this process turned out to be quite anticlimactic compared to the struggles I overcame when I first set out to climb this mountain.

I nearly chucked the whole idea on a number of occasions just because I got so tired of fumbling around in the dark chasing things that I knew absolutely nothing about. In the end, I always came back to it. Eventually I somehow managed to find the end of the trail.

There still may be a few issues here and there that will pop up if I ever get heavy into using it. Using it? Now, that's something to which I hadn't really given much thought! But I'm sure that I'll either find a work-around, or maybe even actually solve the problem.

For now, it works. I'm done. And I'm actually quite pleased with end result (all things considered!). Now all I have to figure out is what I should do with it now that I managed to get it to run!

Mark Craddock is an independent IT consultant based in the UK and can be contacted at mark.craddock@blueyonder.co.uk.